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February 17, 2017Anesthesiology

Adding Examples to the ASA-Physical Status Classification Improves Correct Assignment to Patients

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Why the study?

Does the addition of examples to the ASA-Physical Status Classification System improve correct assignment to patients by clinicians?

Population

Anesthesia-trained and nonanesthesia-trained clinicians

Design

Other

Authors

EHErin HurwitzAmerican Society of AnesthesiologistsMSMichelle SimonThe Nature ConservancySVSandhya R. VintaIS practice

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Implication

May improve ASA-PS assignment consistency across clinicians; leaves open effects on outcomes and practice change.

Structured PICO

Does the addition of examples to the ASA-Physical Status Classification System improve correct assignment to patients by clinicians?

P
Population
Anesthesia-trained and nonanesthesia-trained clinicians
I
Intervention
Addition of examples to the definitions of the ASA-Physical Status Classification System
O
Outcome
Correct assignment of patients

Adding examples to the ASA-Physical Status Classification System improves the accuracy of patient assignment by both anesthesia-trained and nonanesthesia-trained clinicians.

Cite This Study

Hurwitz et al. (2017) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d56ced75589c71d767cebehttps://doi.org/10.1097/aln.0000000000001541
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